But America’s fossil-fuel machine should be ready to face an inexpensive upstart technology, too. What if the drone is to warfare as the #solar panel is to energy? ...
The good news is that none of these technologies are secrets, and we can buy them much more cheaply than we can buy oil. And, once we have them, we’ll no longer depend on the flow of oil through an indefensible, roughly twenty-one-mile-wide ditch."

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https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-iran-war-is-another-reason-to-quit-oil

The Iran War Is Another Reason to Quit Oil

Bill McKibben on the U.S.’s increasing reliance on “greener” defense options, such as inexpensive small drones versus large, costly missiles.

The New Yorker